Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[DJA]

Bogan icon.

[Rosella]

Don't apologise please, DJA. As a fellow Aussie I know where you're coming from! (I don't know where I got Caton from!)

[DJA]

Not at all.

Edit. We Aussies have a sense of humour.

You know that from experience.

Kindly accept my apology.

[Rosella]

Oh, All right! I feel stupid, or more stupid than usual!

[DJA]

Oh!

That Michael Caton

[Rosella]

He was OK in the late 1960s Kings Cross production of "Hair".

Thought "The Castle" was over rated.

Not a fan.

Thanks,I'll keep clear of that one.

Edit. JB HiFi in Oz has Ripper Street 1 & 2 on DVD for $23.98 until Sunday.

Sorry everyone! I meant Keaton of course!

[DJA]

Bit of trivia.

What did Ripper Street and Jack the Ripper's wife have in common?

[DJA]

Michael Caton in 'Birdman'.

He was OK in the late 1960s Kings Cross production of "Hair".

Thought "The Castle" was over rated.

Not a fan.

Thanks,I'll keep clear of that one.

Edit. JB HiFi in Oz has Ripper Street 1 & 2 on DVD for $23.98 until Sunday.

[Rosella]

Michael Caton in 'Birdman'. Actually, the whole film is pretentious but Caton takes the prize cake!

Ethan Hawke as Troy Dyer in 'Reality Bites' (1994)

'Last Year at Marienbad' (1961) Everyone in it was pretentious as was the film. My companion went to sleep, but I actually didn't mind it in a strange sort of way.

Wes Bentley as Ricky Fitts in 'American Beauty' (1999) He indulges himself by filming a plastic bag blowing in the wind for what seems like an eternity.

[GUT]

It's been over a month, so I propose this topic for our next bunch of films. It seems suggested to me by recent events and a personality on this board:

Movies with a Know-it-all, self-satisfied, or pretentious character in them:

[Sometimes the character may actually be one who is genuinely a genius and the hero. More frequently it's a self-deluded phony]

1) Clifton Webb as "Lynn Belvedere" in "Sitting Pretty", "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College", and "Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell"
2) Monty Wooley as "Sheridan Whiteside" in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
3) Robert Morley as "Andrew Undershaft" in "Major Barbara"
4) Leslie Howard as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "Pygmalion"
a) Honorable mention: Esme Percy as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "Pygmalion"
5) Rex Harrison as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "My Fair Lady"
a) Honorable mention: Theodore Bikel as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "My Fair Lady". [R.I.P. Mr. Bikel. I was fortunate to see you twice in your one man show.]
7) Fred MacMurray in "The Absent Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber"
6) Sig Ruman as "Colonel Erhardt" in "To Be or Not To Be"

Please add any you can think of.

Thanks for re booting a sensible thread.

[Mayerling]

New Topic

It's been over a month, so I propose this topic for our next bunch of films. It seems suggested to me by recent events and a personality on this board:

Movies with a Know-it-all, self-satisfied, or pretentious character in them:

[Sometimes the character may actually be one who is genuinely a genius and the hero. More frequently it's a self-deluded phony]

1) Clifton Webb as "Lynn Belvedere" in "Sitting Pretty", "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College", and "Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell"
2) Monty Wooley as "Sheridan Whiteside" in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
3) Robert Morley as "Andrew Undershaft" in "Major Barbara"
4) Leslie Howard as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "Pygmalion"
a) Honorable mention: Esme Percy as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "Pygmalion"
5) Rex Harrison as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "My Fair Lady"
a) Honorable mention: Theodore Bikel as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "My Fair Lady". [R.I.P. Mr. Bikel. I was fortunate to see you twice in your one man show.]
7) Fred MacMurray in "The Absent Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber"
6) Sig Ruman as "Colonel Erhardt" in "To Be or Not To Be"

Please add any you can think of.

[Steadmund Brand]

So sad to hear about the passing of another legend....

I'll Add to this great list if I may.

1- 1946- Sentimental Journey- chaming film, plus William Bendix is always fun

2- 1949- The Forbidden Street- Dana Andrews is also magnificant!!!

3- also 1949 (good year eh?)- Father was a Fullback- ok not a great film, but hey Jim Backus is in it and that adds a star or two in my book..

4-1963- Spencer's Mountain-Henry Fonda and Maureen O'hara were great together!!

Steadmund Brand

[DJA]

Kangaroo, 1952.

[Mayerling]

In honor of a great Hollywood actress - one of the last survivors of the golden age of films - who just died:

Films of Maureen O'Hara:

Jamaica Inn
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Black Swan
This Land is Mine
How Green Was My Valley
The Spanish Main
Miracle on 34th Street
Rio Grande
The Quiet Man
Under Two Flags
The Wings of Eagles
Our Man In Havana
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
McClintock
Only The Lonely

Add any others....

[Mayerling]

Pretty much everything he posts is, personally I think it's a name thing.

Thanks GUT. At a moment like this I recall a bit of dialog in a Sherlock Holmes' story. Holmes has just referred to Professor Moriarty:

Watson: "The mastermind as famous among criminals as...."
Holmes: "My blushes Watson...."
[Pause]
Watson: "I was about to say as he is unknown to the general public!"

Jeff